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Mi'gmaw from Listuguj; Assistant Professor (Indigenous Education) at McGill University
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This presentation will explore how form in qualitative research mediates the understanding of rea... more This presentation will explore how form in qualitative research mediates the understanding of readers/viewers, and how the use of a form by the researcher mediates the understanding of the data. It will share interactively with examples of poetry, collage, music, and performance how various genres of arts-informed inquiry transform understanding by increasing accessibility, incorporating ambiguity, permitting multiple interpretations, including marginalized voices, and challenging linear thinking
Les langues autochtones du Québec, 2011
Indigenous languages in Canada and worldwide are threatened with extinction in the coming decades... more Indigenous languages in Canada and worldwide are threatened with extinction in the coming decades if younger speakers do not acquire them and pass them on to future generations. In Listuguj, a Mi’gmaq community in eastern Canada where the proportion of fluent speakers of the Indigenous language is less than 20% and dropping, local instructors, using native speaker insights, have created a new visual-oral teaching method for adult learners. Outside university researchers were invited to be part of the team. Since 2006 we have participated in intensive grant-writing and other consultative work, using a Participatory Action Research orientation, with Listuguj community members taking the lead role. Our expanded research team is now undertaking a new Early Years Mi’gmaq Immersion research project in Listuguj, and also plans to work with Listuguj community-based researcher-instructors to develop a teacher education program for adult learner-speakers of an Indigenous language who wish to ...
This presentation will explore how form in qualitative research mediates the understanding of rea... more This presentation will explore how form in qualitative research mediates the understanding of readers/viewers, and how the use of a form by the researcher mediates the understanding of the data. It will share interactively with examples of poetry, collage, music, and performance how various genres of arts-informed inquiry transform understanding by increasing accessibility, incorporating ambiguity, permitting multiple interpretations, including marginalized voices, and challenging linear thinking
Les langues autochtones du Québec, 2011
Indigenous languages in Canada and worldwide are threatened with extinction in the coming decades... more Indigenous languages in Canada and worldwide are threatened with extinction in the coming decades if younger speakers do not acquire them and pass them on to future generations. In Listuguj, a Mi’gmaq community in eastern Canada where the proportion of fluent speakers of the Indigenous language is less than 20% and dropping, local instructors, using native speaker insights, have created a new visual-oral teaching method for adult learners. Outside university researchers were invited to be part of the team. Since 2006 we have participated in intensive grant-writing and other consultative work, using a Participatory Action Research orientation, with Listuguj community members taking the lead role. Our expanded research team is now undertaking a new Early Years Mi’gmaq Immersion research project in Listuguj, and also plans to work with Listuguj community-based researcher-instructors to develop a teacher education program for adult learner-speakers of an Indigenous language who wish to ...